YEMEN closed down a small newspaper and ordered the arrest of its editor today for reprinting caricatures of Prophet Mohammad that have caused outrage across the Muslim world, the official Saba news agency reported.
"The Ministry of Information issued a decree annulling the licence of al-Hurriya," the agency said, referring to the small independent weekly with a circulation of around 2000.
The prosecution also issued an order for the arrest of the editor-in-chief Abdul-Karim Sabra, who is also the owner and publisher, on charges of offending Islam and the Prophet.
Muslims consider any images of the Prophet to be blasphemous.
On Saturday, Jordan arrested the editor of a tabloid weekly newspaper, Jihad Momani, for reprinting the controversial cartoons first published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten last September.
Anger has erupted in the Middle East after other European newspapers reprinted the cartoons.
Thousands of protesters torched the Danish consulate in Beirut yesterday, a day after angry Syrians set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus.
